MATRIX - A Dossier for Every Person in Utah

jxs2151 writes: "According to the Deseret Morning News former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt signed Utah's 2.4 million residents up for a pilot program that gathers dossiers on every single man, woman and child and didn't bother to tell anyone. According to the article MATRIX -- Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange '...cross-references government records from both public and private databases, putting together a dossier on individuals for use by law enforcement.' The state's homeland security specialist dismisses concerns: '...any data gleaned for Utah's participation in MATRIX is information already available to law enforcement.' The Utah legislature is trying to figure out how to get the state out of the program but the question is how was the Governor able to enroll the -whole state- without anyone knowing?"

Comments

Re:Lots of cross-referencing to do.

[btakita]

The Mormons have a good genealogy record database in place.

In fact, I wonder if Utah uses the Mormon's database to track who lives there.

Re:when governments remove civil liberties

[iminplaya]

And you know this to be fact...You were there?? Did he show you picture ID??

"Nevermind the fact that bin Laden claimed responsibility hisownself."

How do you know? Were you the cameraman? Or did you just work the boom mike? Or maybe you were laying the gaffer's tape and you overheard something...?

Re: Moroni about Mormons

[DoraLives]

Reduced to it's nub, all religions are a crock of shit, and this one's merely a bit crockier than most (whattaya say we don't even get me started on the whole "holy underwear" thing, ok?). The sonofibitches steadfastly bitch and scream about us heathen dogs paying their collective delusion its "proper respect" even as they also steadfastly trample upon all other collective thought processes (a set of objects somewhat larger than mere religion, partially overlapping religion but not entirely overlapping it that we shall perhaps call "cultures" for lack of a more accurate word) that fail to achieve congruency with the particular collective delusion in question.

The business of paying heed to the congress of the United States as instructed to do so by God hisself, leads to all sorts of weirdnesses, not least amongst which would be the proposition that in some strange way, congress is telling God what's good and what's bad so that God can then relay the message to His (forget any thoughts of a female God, all you politically correct non gender biased folks, we're working with mormons here) flock of Chosen Ones that they may walk more straightforwardly upon the Righteous Path.

That this whole database deal is happening in Utah, somehow smells more than just a little connected up with the "prevailing religion" in that part of the world, to these nostrils.

Re:when governments remove civil liberties

[iminplaya]

Wow...racism being moderated as insightful. Sad indeed. I was hoping that slashdotters were somehow above all that. Evidently not... I've watched mainstream(corporate) media spread Bush's lies about Iraq and Johnson's and Nixon's lies about Vietnam. Now I'm sopposed to believe that this tape actually came from Bin Laden and that he said all these things. These people are no more reputable than whatreallyhappened.com or moveon.org or anybody else for that matter. Oh, well. Happy hunting...

Re: Moron about Mormons

[Moofie]

Yes! Mod the grandparent down, so nobody gets information that is not sanctioned by the Church. We need to figure out how to shut up those infidels.

What size are your boots?

Re:Making a big noise here in Utah....

[ralphclark]

That piece is so screwed up it can only be drug abuse or brain injury that's behind it, IMHO.